How to Use epitaph in a Sentence

epitaph

noun

• Thanks to fans like Schaap, the epitaph holds true for fans like me.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 June 2018
• That’s the epitaph for Malzahn’s time on The Plains: Oh, what should have been, but never was.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2020
• Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead.
  — John Locher, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• Biden remains the front runner, but the line had the ring of a campaign epitaph.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 25 July 2019
• If this sounds like an epitaph one game too soon, well, you’re right.
  — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• But when the epitaph of season is written, the bullpen should have a starring role.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 16 Sep. 2017
• The term echoes my mother’s Yiddish epitaph for a loafer.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• No, that’s not going to be my epitaph, but thanks for the suggestion.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 July 2021
• Her epitaph will be simple: Her name, the dates of her birth and death, and one other word: Woman.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 17 May 2017
• Read Bob Woodward's epitaph for that office from June of that year.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 18 May 2018
• Which, come to think of it, is a pretty fair epitaph for this whole sorry affair.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Dak Prescott isn’t close to putting an epitaph on his Cowboys career.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 9 June 2021
• In effect the film becomes his own epitaph and tombstone.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 20 June 2018
• But the epitaph for the Ducks will be too many battles to survive, too many times to get up after being knocked down.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 22 May 2017
• That’s the epitaph waiting to be changed or chiseled Sunday.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
• The line serves as both a poignant epitaph for Klee and a beautiful grace note for this affecting film.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• But Swift wasn’t ready to write the epitaph for Republicans in her state or in New England.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• But Swift wasn't ready to write the epitaph for Republicans in her state or in New England.
  — Joanna Slater, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• These words are the epitaph on Shakespeare’s grave in Holy Trinity Church.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• Your epitaph may be your last and best chance to rewrite your history.
  — Dallas News, 9 May 2021
• The curlicues of eyeliner that were once your signature but now read more like an epitaph?
  — Lisa Armstrong, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2009
• Raulff has given us an eloquent epitaph for the horse’s long relevance to our world.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Regardless of the outcome, an epitaph of sorts for People’s Park.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• How about if the City Council ensures this epitaph for those destroyed live oaks: Stricter rules that give trees more of a fighting chance?
  — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2022
• In the winter of 2018 these pronouncements read more like an epitaph for a bygone golden age.
  — Michael Kimmage, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
• And a mosaic near the entrance to the law school today includes one of his axioms, which is also an epitaph.
  — Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
• Based on a pair of wild weekends in the desert, the two-part article was a freewheeling epitaph for the 1960s counterculture.
  — Peter Richardson, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• When the epitaph for this team is written well before the World Series this fall, its failed bullpen strategy will be central to the story.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Boseman received some of the best notices of his career, making for an apt epitaph for a brief but brilliant career.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2024
• Let this piece, originally written when the 2023 show was cancelled in March, serve as our epitaph for an annual industry gathering that grew to be a cultural touchstone in the gaming world.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024